york city, and is a trained internist and outlook health specialists. and then paul tang, who is board certified practicing internist and vice president and chief innovation and technology officer at palo alto medical foundation in california. he also served during my tenure and since then at the office of national coordinate as a member and now as vice chair of the federal health information technology policy council, or committee, which was established by the congress to advise the office of national corner on health information technology policy. and the third member of our panel, hot summer underground, is christine bechtel, who is the vice president of the national partnership for women and families, where she is responsible for strategic direction and oversight of the organization's multifaceted work. she's also a member of the federal health i.t. policy committee and does high noon work on the role of consumers with respect to health technology and technology generally. so i think the way we're going to proceed, we are one short, we are going to proceed by, i'm closing some ques
